NFS Contract Job Trends in London

Network File System (NFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 348 366
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 +157
Contract jobs citing NFS 8 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.054% 0.094% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.47% 0.91% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £501 £517 £575
25th Percentile £503 £543 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -0.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £584 £628 £615
90th Percentile £594 £653 £738
England median daily rate £475 £525 £476
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.24% -9.29%

All System Software Skills
London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,685 1,429 1,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.40% 10.28% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 940 1,381
10th Percentile £325 £255 £210
25th Percentile £428 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +9.89% -12.96%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £630
90th Percentile £750 £810 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 32
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £16.95
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.59 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -25.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £40.07 £35.75 £52.69
90th Percentile £67.70 £101.80 £64.75
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +44.62% -33.71% +13.64%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

NFS job vacancy trend in London

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the London region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -9 1 - - 3
NFS
England

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) NAS
3 3 (37.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) InfiniBand
4 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
4 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (12.50%) SSH
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Subversion
1 4 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Replication
2 4 (50.00%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Solaris
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) API Integration
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Data Security
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Perl
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Veritas File System
2 4 (50.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) Ceph
3 1 (12.50%) iptables
3 1 (12.50%) KVM
3 1 (12.50%) Lustre
3 1 (12.50%) Samba
3 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) QRadar
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (37.50%) EMC VPLEX
3 3 (37.50%) vMotion
4 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (12.50%) SELinux
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) CyberArk
2 4 (50.00%) Qualys
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (50.00%) SaltStack
2 4 (50.00%) Splunk
3 3 (37.50%) Commvault
3 3 (37.50%) Pure Storage